This October will be the third year that organisations on the Isle of Man bring you Heritage Open Days over two weekends, providing access to properties, lands and displays usually closed to the public or normally charge admission. Funded by the Trustees of the Manx Museum and National Trust, Manx National Heritage co-ordinate […]

THE audience arriving for Ramsey National Week’s Manx Fairy Tales concert felt as though they were stepping back in time and entering an old fisherman’s cottage, complete with a fire blazing in the choillagh and ‘pot dogs’ on the mantlepiece. This was thanks to a stunning backcloth painted by Deborah Taubman.

Manx National Heritage is planning a major exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War in 2014, and curators would like to hear from anyone who has material which they feel they can contribute.

This special exhibition is scheduled to open in January 2014 at the Manx Museum and […]

With a growing number of people communicating on social media sites through Manx Gaelic, the language has received a great boost with the creation of a basic Facebook template in the language. With assistance from Kevin Scannell, a computer science professor at St. Louis University in America, it is now possible to ‘like’ ‘follow’, find […]